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. 2021 Oct 21;8:739227. doi: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.739227

FIGURE 1.

FIGURE 1

Flow chart of the research design. 6,476 patients were screened for emergency agitation, and 24 patients developed EA. 36 non-EA patients were matched with a ratio of 1:1.5 according to gender, age, BSA, and surgery types. Finally, 16 valid preoperative blood samples in the EA group and 34 valid preoperative blood samples in the non-EA group were collected for further analyses.